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[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AFJunior:
Atrix GPS sucks

I am not sure we are talking about the same phone. I must be unlucky. My Atrix is a complete disappointment concerning GPS.

I have tried by all means to make it faster, but no way! I have tried FasterFix, GPSFix, and every other solution that I found in the market and in forums.

My wife has a Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 and it is much much faster. When I put both Atrix and X8 side by side and turn on any application that makes use of GPS, like GPS Test, for instance, then you can see the difference. X8 gets a fix inside my house in not more than 5 secs. Atrix simply can´t get a fix in this case.

When I am outdoors, X8 fixes in about 2 secs while Atrix takes usually more than a minute, sometimes up to 3~4 minutes.

That also happened when I compared Atrix with a Xperia X10 of a friend.

I tried changing settings, looked for suggestions in forums. I believe I did everything that was in my reach and nothing worked. And I bought Atrix because it was supposed to be the best smartphone in the world.

Note that the GPS does work, but it takes too long to get a fix and is not stable at all. I use it to walk together with Adidas MiCoach App and the GPS looses connection several times during my walk. And I walk in an open field. No buildings, no barriers between the phone and the sky.

I hope that my set needs repairing and I will get it fixed. That is what I will do next. Take it to service.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KryptosXLayer2:
one post to make this whole long point..... So tell us, who do you work for Sony or Apple? Seriously, I have two other people in my family with an Atrix besides me and I've seen first hand how fast they all lock on.... If you are a real person and not a bot from some rival, I suggest you get the thing fixed as you suggested or return it immediately! These are the best smartphones right now and I've never heard anyone complain about the gps!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RazKidd:
To me its really good . it updates when you move , it does it realli smoothly & sometimes if you want to or its optional but you can put the map on your background of your phone from live wallpaper and it will do everything on your background . :) but that is a battery stealer for sure . but its worth it :) get it !!!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AFJunior:
I am glad to know that the problem is probably with my set. I am not a fan of either Sony or Apple. I intend to keep my Atrix. I am just very disappointed because I guessed I had the best smartphone in the market and I spent a lot on it. Besides that I use GPS a lot either for running/walking or car navigation. I hope it was probably just bad luck. Tomorrow I will get it to service and will let you know.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdjpurekarmax:
Im pretty satisfied with my Atrix's GPS but the only issue I have is when I use it in conjuction with the Vehicle dock and using the navigation app, it drains the battery despite being plugged in.....ANyone else experience it? I left for Miami one day and my phone was at 100% charge and when I got there it was at 40%despite being plugged into the dock and it had the charging icon in the corner.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AFJunior:
It doesn´t happen with mine. I notice through the icon that when the phone is fully charged the charger turns off automatically. Then it starts to drain battery up to a certain level when the charger is activated again. I guess this is what happens, but I am not sure. So during the trip the icon changes from time to time from charging to charged.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pukemon:
My gos is pretty good. Probably best I've had besides nokia e71. Every once in awhile its off, but I don't think its phone fault at those times. It can be the weather or satellite. Happens every once in a while my other phones too. Nonetheless, its been very fast and accurate. .probably the.longest I've waited is underneath a skyscraper. Even in parking garage I usually get a lock in less than 2 seconds.

I voided my warranty and your mum.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cachookaman:
compared to my captivate, the gps on the atrix is amazing. before my captivate crapped out on me, it would take at least 30 seconds to get a semi-accurate lock even with gps tweaks. with my atrix, im locked on in less that 5 seconds with at least 6 satellites in use.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rred:
I've noticed that the "new improved and way more reliable" microUSB plug sometimes doesn't make good contact going into the phone, it just needs to wiggle and the charging stops. And the ciggy lighter power plugs are infamous for losing contact as a car bounces.

So it could simply be that one of your plugs (dock or ciggy lighter) wasn't snug, bounced a little, and the phone was on battery. Then it wiggled back, and the phone was charging again when you took another look at it.

If it keeps happening, look for a loose connector. If no loose connector, then send it out for warranty replacement. A car charger should be able to both power and charge the phone, unless you've got some really low power charger in there and it just isn't enough. USB standard is just 500mA, Atrix charger is about 850mA, and you need the extra to run and charge at the same time.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sniffertobi:
hi i have a tablet pc newman mini all vx1000 this one: http://onesgadget.com/search/newman-mini-all-vx1000/

and i wanna know where to download games and apps...but not that low quality games

i want good quality and cool games for it

it is running windows ce 5.0 and it has got 266 mhz procesor

i also wanna know can i put the windows ce 6.0 on it and where to download it

help! :)))
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ElectronX:
Programs for Microsoft Handheld PC 2000 should be operational. For example applications for the HP Jornada 720.

A different firmware is available only from the device manufacturer. But there is no benefit for you to upgrade to a platform based on Windows Embedded CE 6.0.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wapvirus:
I have a SAT nav that runs ce 5 i use windows mobile apps and games not all work but here is what to try

Install the game or application on a windows mobile device ,Copy the folder containing all to your CE device before it will run UPX the exe and the app or game will work on CE

You can get UPX here : http://upx.sourceforge.net/ PC version or a windows mobile version here : http://mobisapienz.com/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=82&task=view.download&cid=54

good luck
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jivy26:
I haven't tested every single kernel but I have tried firebird speed mod and sucker punch and between the three speed mod has given the best battery life. Anyone know of the best kernel for battery life I don't care about quadrant scores.

[ROM] Precision 3.5 [Kernel] Suckerpunch with Voodoo #3
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dupontrocks11:
Speedmod is known to have the best battery life.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadrachCA:
I'm using Speedmod 13C right now with Supernova 2.3 and am getting great results (20 to 24 hrs with moderate usage). Many people have posted that 13A gave them better battery performance, though I can't say because I missed that release.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hondo209:
http://touristinparadise.blogspot.com/2010/12/at-captivate-download-speedmod-kernel.html
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jivy26:
Only thing with speed mod is you can't uc or uv

Perception 3.5 with Suckerpunch

Unclocked to 600mhz

Undervolted to -100mV
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadrachCA:
Wow, that's a great resource. Thanks for the link!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vaanhoot:
If oc or uv is important to you, try paragon 6.0. It comes with a modified SpeedMod 13a kernel that you can oc or uv.

Sent from my phone using the XDA app.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jivy26:
Ty gonna try pulling kernel from paragon.

Perception 3.5 with Suckerpunch

Unclocked to 600mhz

Undervolted to -100mV
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dupontrocks11:
Believe it or not, with k12t kernel I got 50 hours with light usage. It was rediculous.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jivy26:
Couldn't find k12t on his site for download

Perception 3.5 with Suckerpunch

Unclocked to 600mhz

Undervolted to -100mV
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdahgary:
3rd post in paragon thread are dl links for his kernels.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jivy26:
Just found right before I saw your post lol thank you

Perception 3.5 with Suckerpunch

Unclocked to 600mhz

Undervolted to -100mV
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dupontrocks11:
It seemed to work better with the rom ultimate 7 tim's tweak.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethjamto:
Okay...I've gone from k13c back to 13a, then to Paragones kernel. My time without signal remains at 50%, even after wiping battery in CWM and trying to turn on airplane mode as suggested. Why is my time without signal still at 50%??
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smithey253:
I recently installed the latest Oxygen ROM and since then I have received an error saying "Failed to move application. There is not enough storage left." when trying to move apps to my SD card, which has plenty of room on it still.

Does anyone have any ideas why this is and how I can fix it?

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Splin-ru:
Is there an EXT partition on card? If not, try to reflash Oxygen with full wipe, may help.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kmcgill88:
I'm new to rooting. Just got my moto droid (1) rooted yesterday using superoneclick. Worked Flawlessly. I've installed barnacle wifi teather utilizing my newely establish root 'superuser'.

I've been reading up on custom roms, removing bloatware, ect and am anxious to give it all a go HOWEVER first things first, I need to make a copy/backup of my stock phone's rom right?

I need to be rooted to make a backup right?

Now I've heard about nandroid and titanium back. From what I've gathered titanium backs up all ur apps and there settings to reintall after flashing a new rom,...right? (Since flashin wipes internal memory)

I think, Nandroid is needed for installing new/custom roms and/or reverting back to my stock rom.....nandroid is a program correct?

Am I following this correctly?

Id really appreciate your time to answer my elemenatry questions.

Thanks!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zeppelinrox:
Basically, nandroid is a disc image.

You can restore your entire OS quite quickly.

Titanium is simply a very good program for backing up your apps along with data so all your settings are saved.

Restoring with titanium can take a long time though since each app gets installed one by one - and that's when it is working properly. For me, it just keeps closing itself after restoring a singe app.

I haven't seen it recommended but I HIGHLY recommend SuperManager for for backing up and restoring. It doesn't ask any questions. It just puts all your stuff back and it doesn't crash.

So I use SM for restoring the whole shot, and Titanium when I'm being more selective.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Twist3:
if you use nandroid to backup then after you have flashed your new ROM then you can put the nandroid files in the sd/openrecovery/nandroid/ folder, boot into open recovery and pick the nandroid files to install.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kmcgill88:
I got super manager and backed up my apps to sd card.

Next I got rom manager...now my problem is I cannot get rom manager to back up my stock rom. Flashed the clockworkmod via rom manager and tried booting into recovery,..I only get stock recovery.

Went back into rom manager and flashed the alternative recovery SPRecovery, still no luck booting into an aftermarket recovery.

What the heck am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] A2Aegis:
I haven't gotten ROM Manager to work consistently, but I find that after a few attempts at booting into Clockwork Recovery, it'll eventually go through. Maybe someone can point out a way to make the process take less time.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kmcgill88:
Got up this morning and thought id try again.

Flashed the clockwork recovery then instantly hit reboot in recovery and voila!! It worked! Weird tho. Made my first nandroid.

Does anyone have a suggestion on what rom to give a try for a motorola droid (1)?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] vladstercr:
If you want 2.2 you should try CM6 or Froyomod 2.5.0

If you want 2.3 you should try Shadowmodbrv.2.3.2 build 3. It's the fastest rom i've tried so far....or CM7 which works quite good.

On all of these roms the battery life is really good...Many people say that their battery life sucks with custom roms but actually they havent had their battery status calibrated correctly. For example, the battery percentage shows 30%, when actually it has 60%.

Search on the forums about calibrating yours if you want...

Hope I've been helpful...

Cheers, vladstercr!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kmcgill88:
I've heard the CM name around a lot. When I go into rom manager I see the CM 6 but I'm still lil nervous to give it a shot. This is my only phone. Soo,....maybe a few more tutorials to review the process once more..just cuz

Now when I flash, say, CM6 I don't need to worry about root or superuser permission anymore do I?

Also what apps, if any, will be pre installed with CM6? (I have backed up my apps with super manager)

I really appreciate everyones help! THANK YOU!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zeppelinrox:
Since you did a nandroid, you have very little to worry about.

But, just to be super safe, you can copy the nandroid to your computer.

If anything goes wrong, you have an instant restore handy.

About Super Manager - I forgot to mention that to save all your user data along with your apps and to also have a quick restore process, back up using the smbk option.

When you flash CM6, you will stay rooted and be overclocked to 900 mhz.

There is no bloat installed with CM6 but all the essentials are there.

I don't know anything about ROM Manager stuff because I can't use it on my Milestone.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Zephandos:
is this the shadwmod you're referring to? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=939555

will this work for the droid 1 (as long as i flash the proper baseband)? i've tried a fair # of gb builds but not this one and wanna give it a shot. thanks :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skribzy:
I've had a few questions about nandroid. So far I do a full back up so I can revert if a new ROM is playing up. If I decide to stick with a new ROM, can I just restore elements of that full backup to get my data (I.e. texts, call logs and apps) back? Or is it all or nothing?

At the moment I just put up with starting fresh but it would be helpful to retain some of that data. (I'm getting bored starting angry birds over and over again!)

Cheers

S
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Zephandos:
nandroid is only useful for a FULL restore of your entire phone's state. it backs up everything in IMG format, and then re-flashes it *in whole* in the event of a restore. so, short answer, no... you can't restore bits and pieces from a nandroid backup.

HOWEVER, Titanium Backup is my app of choice for backing up applications and app data (because no one should have to start over at angry birds!). The donate/Pro app is TOTALLY worth the few bucks, and it's very easy to use.

To use Titanium Backup: download from market (i really suggest the Pro version), click "Batch" then "backup user apps". When you start fresh with a new ROM, cancel all your active downloads, re-download Titanium Backup from the market and select batch>restore missing apps + app data. This way you restore the data associated with your apps, but not a previous ROMs system data. If you are unable to cancel your downloads, there is also a batch method to uninstall all backed up apps, that way you can make sure that you install your backup and not a "fresh" copy from the market.

A quick note about angry birds using Titanium Backup on GB -- with most GB ROMs, Angry Birds will install by default to the sdcard. They, however, will not run on the sdcard. As soon as you've done a restore using Titanium, just go to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications, and click Angry Birds and select "Move to Phone". Then you should be good :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skribzy:
thanks very much for such useful advice! :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mfratto:
I have found that TitaniumPro doesn't always restore setting properly. Sometimes you have to go into the individual app and do a manual restore. I am not sure why this is, but just FYI.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Zephandos:
titanium CAN restore system settings / apps, but it's a little bit of a different process to make sure that you don't restore a previous ROM's data, which can cause some pretty serious instabilities if done improperly.

here are some How-Tos for using Titanium Backup: http://www.moddedlogic.com/pe/howto.php

these methods are a little more advanced, and if done improperly can cause instability. these methods can be used in conjunction with restoring "missing apps + app data" like i mentioned above.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kmcgill88:
Its neither. Its both. You can't pluck ur call log txt ect data from a nandroid to my knowledge.

I'm new to this but I have the understanding a nandroid is a snapshot of EXACTLY everything you have on your phone, including txt, call log,ect. So as I'm sure you've read its always suggested to creat a nandroid of your original rom before installing a custom rom. Then u can go back in time if need be.

As for restoring your data after installing a new rom you need to backup your apps, I used super manager via smbk file, once you install the new rom go to market (or its pry saved in sd still) reinstall super manager and use the restore button to reinstall all your apps in one fell swoop.

Contacts, calendar, and email r on the google cloud so that will auto resync once u sign into your phone. I still lost my txt, call log, ect but I didn't care about that.

Now that u have your apps back and get a few settings confgured i decided to make a nandroid of my newly installed Rom just in case I F something up and can't figure out how to g back. With the new nandroid created I can revert back to my stock rom or modded rom annd all apps & data will be exactly how I left it.

Hope that helps.

Anyone plz feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Zephandos:
It's *possible* but not easy. Nandroid is a **disk image** (.img file) backup, not a file-by-file backup/file dump. While it's *possible* to dissect it and flash bits and pieces, it would be quite advanced since it would have to be flashed using adb or a terminal emulator ...and even then i'm not sure it would actually work without running the full binary scripts from the recovery restore processes. And even if you did get the binaries to run and flash the .img files to the right places, you would run the possibility that the old data would be incompatible with your current ROM / system.

You can unpack the img file in linux if you know how and push pieces of it using adb shell, but that's still sort of going out of your way for something relatively simple. To unpack an .img file in linux:

# Make a directory where you want the file mounted:

sudo mkdir /image

# Then mount the image on the directory:

sudo mount -o loop /path/to/file.img /image

# Then you could open the directory with nautilus:

nautilus /image

# When you're done, unmount the img:

sudo unmount /image

Nandroid is a backup of a STATE of your phone, not pieces. To backup apps and data, just use a program, there are a bunch out there. You can also do as I do and pull /system and /data from your phone and backup to your computer. You will need the android sdk though. Just connect via USB and make sure USB Debugging is enabled (settings>applications>development) and run in terminal:

cd [android sdk directory/platform-tools/]

adb devices

(make sure your device shows up)

adb pull /system [local directory]

adb pull /data [local directory]

voila. you now have copies of your /data and /system folders on your computer. you can even do your whole internal storage if you want and can create the proper permissions. however, as a caveat, these will not restore a broken system to stable state like a nandroid will, it's pretty much just for restoring individual apps if you lose them or delete something.

bottom line: nandroid is great for what it's intended for. outside of that, there are reasons why there are backup tools / apps for backing up pieces of your ROM. use them each for what they're intended and you'll be good. nandroid backup/restore is like 3 clicks. same for app restore programs. use the appropriate tools for the appropriate jobs and you'll be juuuuust fine. :D

EDIT: it's also possible to do an advanced nandroid restore of a certain partition, but it's *highly* advisable not to in almost all circumstances. it will most likely screw up more stuff than it fixes. it's really only helpful if the backup and your current ROM are the exact same.

for instance, if I have a nandroid backup of CM6, and i screw something up in my /data folder, and i'm still running the same version of CM6, then i could advanced nandroid my /data partition back in recovery. outside of that, it's pretty much useless and would do more harm than good.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] enry_86:
Hi :)

I'm sorry to jump in in the discussion like this but reading this discussion confused me a little regarding a possible usage of a nandroid backup.

Given the fact that this type of backup is a full image of the system, can I transfer this backup on another motorola droid and restore it also on there? Or each nandroid is associated to a specific phone (even if the model is the same)?

Thank you so much!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zeppelinrox:
No a nandroid wouldn't necessarily be phone specific.

But it would be OS specific.

There would likely be problems if you restored a CM6 rom (froyo) on a phone that still has eclair on it.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Zephandos:
it's not necessarily "phone" specific, but it is *device* specific. you wouldn't be able to use a Droid nandroid on a Droid X, for instance. The md5 sum check would fail.

so yes, you would be able to restore a nandroid restore on a backup that you manually moved onto another phone, as long as the device was the same (moto droid to moto droid).
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zeppelinrox:
I believe that was the plan... taking a nandroid from one Droid to another Droid.

The only problem that I could forsee is that there could be a problem with directly applying a froyo rom onto a phone that still has eclair on it.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
i gotcha -- agreed. yeah that's what i got out of it too, i just wanted to elaborate for a little extra specificity is all :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zeppelinrox:
lol @ "little extra specificity"
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] enry_86:
Thank you so much guys for your help!

I will try then and I'll see what happens :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Glad to help! :D
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gibosn6594:
Has anyone been unable to use their Citrix application since GB? It was working perfectly fine before I manually updated to Gingerbread.

Now I am getting a SSL error when I try to log into an application?

Anyone have any advice?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GldRush98:
No advice that is helpful... but I know that Citrix on Android uses java's certificate store, and it is missing some root certificates typically found in other stores, which can cause SSL errors...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gibosn6594:
Just a Monday bump for this to see if anyone else is having this problem.